Hospital Equipment Infected With Conficker 289
nandemoari writes "Recently, the Conficker/Downadup worm infected several hundred machines and critical medical equipment in an undisclosed number of US hospitals.
The attacks were not widespread; however, Marcus Sachs, director of the SANS Internet Storm Center, told CNET News that it raises the awareness of what we would do if there were millions of computers infected in hospitals or in critical infrastructure locations.
It's not clear how the devices (including heart monitors, MRI machines and PCs) got infected. Infected computers were running Windows NT and Windows 2000 in a local area network (LAN) that wasn't supposed to be Internet accessible, but the LAN was connected to one with direct Internet access.
A patch was released by Microsoft last October that fixes the problem, but the computers infected were reportedly too old to be patched."
Well... (Score:5, Funny)
Eeesh... (Score:2, Funny)
bugs on hospital computers (Score:4, Funny)
Suddenly I have this horrible urge to write a virus called "Swine Flu" that only attacks medical systems..
New Sources of SPAM! (Score:4, Funny)
Mabey it just wasn't a good time to upgrade? (Score:5, Funny)
Swine flu? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Does it bother anyone else..... (Score:3, Funny)
Newer isn't always better.
I disagree, think of how much better those machines would be running if they used vista!
Re:Swine flu? (Score:1, Funny)
Yes.
Re:Eeesh... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Old Computers (Score:3, Funny)
I don't know why, but i read "PACS" as "Particle Accelerator Cannons" - god forbid anything at CERN gets Conficker.